This was actually a really interesting week between everything that happened. Nothing really super exciting - but a little more interesting than usual. I got a phone call from the Mission President last Monday, right when I was about to finish sending letters. You won’t believe what happened. I am going to be a trainer - I am going to train a new missionary and I only have been out 6 months. I am going to receive this kid tomorrow. He will be a Dominican. It’s a little crazy. I don’t remember his name. Nor do I know what he looks like. And I’m kind of a little nervous about that. Not a lot but a little. I mean who wouldn’t be? Right? So that’s cool.
Anyways, Tuesday was a pretty normal day. But miercoles [Wednesday] was the interesting day. So in the morning we had a zone conference with the AP´s. That was really good. They actually told us that we were doing awesome and were one of the best Zones in the mission. So that’s exciting to know. They also talked about how to better our district meetings. But Wednesday night was the more interesting part. So my companion and I got in a fight. But it was weirder than weird, because I don’t know exactly what I said to him that started it, but it started out with him throwing a chair at the wall…. then screaming…. and walking around hitting things. After I calmed him down, he ended up telling me he was sorry and how bad his life was. Then he started crying. He told me about his life for two hours, while crying through the whole thing. I didn’t understand it all, because he wasn’t speaking very clearly at this time. But I pretty much heard every bad thing that has been going through his life since he was probably ten. So, I know a lot about my companion now. And then I gave him a hug and put him to bed. Literally, he was holding on to me and I walked him to his bed. It was a really weird experience, and it was late. It lasted forever. So I don’t really know how to explain it. And yea, that was my Wednesday night. Thursday morning was a little awkward, but that was only to be expected.
Thursday and Friday were pretty normal. Saturday I had another baptism. Her name is Lillian. She is 34 and really cool. But the thing was that I kind of baptized my phone as well as her. lol. So that night I went to a friend’s store and he fixed my phone for free. Oh-yea!! It’s nice to know and be friends with everyone in a city. So I didn’t even have to tell the AP´s or anything and feel like an idiot in front of them. Sunday we had 10 investigators go to church, and we should be having at least two baptisms this coming Saturday. So that’s exciting that I’ll get to start out my kid with two baptisms. And that was my week.
Love ya,
Elder Woestman
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Monday April 20th 2009
So this week was interesting. Tuesday I had my interview with the president for the transfer and he told me I was going to stay in Nizau for another 6 weeks. I don’t know for sure though, that’s just what he hinted at. But that’s cool.
So we have a really sweet investigator. Her name is Lillian and we gave her a Book of Mormon on Tuesday. In four days she read 20 chapters. How crazy is that. You may not think that it is too crazy but it is, because people here can’t read. But she read 20 chapters and remembered everything she read. She was talking about the dream of Nephi and the two churches, the one of the devil and the one of the lamb. So she is awesome. And then this week we had an elder sick in my district. So my companion and I have been going on intercombios with them all the rest of the week. We were taking turns staying with the sick elder and doing both areas.
But now Saturday was a crazy day. So in the morning we watched the restoration video with Lillian, our sweet investigator, but she didn’t have a remote to change the language from English to Spanish. So then I had to translate the whole movie for her. It was crazy hard, but it was also really sweet that I could do that. It told me how much I have progressed and need to be grateful for. Then I went up to Don-Gregorio to do an intercombio. And the day was crazy because we both had a million things to do. So we were running the whole day. Then I got some beans and rice to eat, in a container, to eat at the house but then at the end of the day I tripped and fell and scrapped up my arm and my container of rice flew up in the air so I scrambled to go get it. I caught it because I’m lucky like that. lol. Then these two ladies just started laughing at me. It was good fun. lol. But then there was this huge cool looking dog. So I went up to pet the dog and the dog jumped up and knocked the food out of my hand and eats it all. It was just not my day. I was just never meant to eat my food. lol.
We also started working in a new area called Santana which we have to take a bus to. We have 14 new investigators over there and we just went out one afternoon. So I’m excited to see how things well go over there this next week. But - yea that was my week. There are some more pictures on the blog.
Love You
Elder Woestman
So we have a really sweet investigator. Her name is Lillian and we gave her a Book of Mormon on Tuesday. In four days she read 20 chapters. How crazy is that. You may not think that it is too crazy but it is, because people here can’t read. But she read 20 chapters and remembered everything she read. She was talking about the dream of Nephi and the two churches, the one of the devil and the one of the lamb. So she is awesome. And then this week we had an elder sick in my district. So my companion and I have been going on intercombios with them all the rest of the week. We were taking turns staying with the sick elder and doing both areas.
But now Saturday was a crazy day. So in the morning we watched the restoration video with Lillian, our sweet investigator, but she didn’t have a remote to change the language from English to Spanish. So then I had to translate the whole movie for her. It was crazy hard, but it was also really sweet that I could do that. It told me how much I have progressed and need to be grateful for. Then I went up to Don-Gregorio to do an intercombio. And the day was crazy because we both had a million things to do. So we were running the whole day. Then I got some beans and rice to eat, in a container, to eat at the house but then at the end of the day I tripped and fell and scrapped up my arm and my container of rice flew up in the air so I scrambled to go get it. I caught it because I’m lucky like that. lol. Then these two ladies just started laughing at me. It was good fun. lol. But then there was this huge cool looking dog. So I went up to pet the dog and the dog jumped up and knocked the food out of my hand and eats it all. It was just not my day. I was just never meant to eat my food. lol.
We also started working in a new area called Santana which we have to take a bus to. We have 14 new investigators over there and we just went out one afternoon. So I’m excited to see how things well go over there this next week. But - yea that was my week. There are some more pictures on the blog.
Love You
Elder Woestman
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday - April 13th 2009
Oh my goodness, where to start… so first of all I will start with today because I remember today. So we went on a scavenger hunt this Monday for P-Day. It was hilarious. I put a few photos up on the blog from the scavenger hunt because some things we had to take pictures of. So, I’m just going crazy on this scavenger hunt. We have to like find gangster duds, chicks in the ice cream store, a banana truck, just a bunch of random things right - and one of them was to find a crazy loco guy. Well, we found this bum that looked pretty messed up. So I go to get a picture of him AND HE STARTS SPASING ON ME! I freaked out. He was punching random nothings in the air and I was right behind him. I just fall on the ground and run and started laughing my head off. But I did get a picture of him – it’s just far away. And - he is not to be confused with the picture of the guy eating the garbage either. No. For that is another guy. But the picture of me and the gangster guy is my favorite. When I found him he was trying to stick his daughter of 12 yrs into the dumpster across the street. But now he is like a good friend and he speaks English. At the end of the little scavenger hunt we added everything up and my “keepo soo” won. We just rock.
Sunday was just a way good day but also a way bummer day as well. It was a bummer because none of my investigators that were going to get baptized this next Saturday came to church. It was awesome though because 2 of my most important future baptisms came to church. They are going to get baptized the next Saturday after this one. And - I say my important ones because they are not kids. I love kids, but we always have a lot of kids that want to get baptized. The best baptisms are the people at least over 16. The two I’m talking about are a guy of 50 and a lady of 40 and she has 2 kids that are going to get baptized too - 16 and 17. So that’s sweeter than sweet.
Saturday we had another baptism and then the week was just crazy because it was the week of Easter. Everybody was off school and work. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday was just awesome - then things just went down hill. Nobody wanted to talk to us. Everybody started drinking, so that was not cool. But we still did good. Wednesday when I did the district meeting I finally did my interviews that I’ve been wanting to do with all my missionaries. The interviews went way good. Then the AP´s came and taught us how to do our daily planning more effectively.
We also moved into a new house Tuesday. Our new house is huge. It has three bedrooms and two baths. And there are only two of us. It’s way dang clean! The first four days that we were in our new house we didn’t have electricity or water. So that was fun. I had to take showers with the gallon jugs of water. We eat lunch together Friday and I kicked everyone’s butt in dominoes. Oh-ya. But yea, that was my week. Keeps me busy.
Love You
Elder Woestman
Sunday was just a way good day but also a way bummer day as well. It was a bummer because none of my investigators that were going to get baptized this next Saturday came to church. It was awesome though because 2 of my most important future baptisms came to church. They are going to get baptized the next Saturday after this one. And - I say my important ones because they are not kids. I love kids, but we always have a lot of kids that want to get baptized. The best baptisms are the people at least over 16. The two I’m talking about are a guy of 50 and a lady of 40 and she has 2 kids that are going to get baptized too - 16 and 17. So that’s sweeter than sweet.
Saturday we had another baptism and then the week was just crazy because it was the week of Easter. Everybody was off school and work. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday was just awesome - then things just went down hill. Nobody wanted to talk to us. Everybody started drinking, so that was not cool. But we still did good. Wednesday when I did the district meeting I finally did my interviews that I’ve been wanting to do with all my missionaries. The interviews went way good. Then the AP´s came and taught us how to do our daily planning more effectively.
We also moved into a new house Tuesday. Our new house is huge. It has three bedrooms and two baths. And there are only two of us. It’s way dang clean! The first four days that we were in our new house we didn’t have electricity or water. So that was fun. I had to take showers with the gallon jugs of water. We eat lunch together Friday and I kicked everyone’s butt in dominoes. Oh-ya. But yea, that was my week. Keeps me busy.
Love You
Elder Woestman
Monday, April 6, 2009
Monday, April 6th 2009
So hey:
My week was pretty sweet. Monday I had a really cool experience. I bought a cake for this investigator for his birthday. We called up his friend to get us in the house when he wasn´t there and we waited for him with candles lit and everything. It was really exciting right…… but then he walks in and he sees the cake and does nothing. He was like amazed and the whole environment got really awkward. So I start cutting the cake, but he is still not talking. Then he starts talking to me and he was holding back tears. He started telling me how nobody had ever bought him a cake before on his birthday and it was way moving. I almost cried too and the whole thing got even more awkward -but it was way cool. It’s amazing how much a cake can do for someone.
Tuesday I had an intercombio with the Zone Leaders and it was good. I was with my “grandpa in the mission” Elder Johnson. We worked it hard and it felt good. My Dominican companion is kind of lazy, and I’m not being very patient with it. lol. So it was nice to work hard and also not to be in charge for a change. lol.
Then Wednesday was the district meeting. It was good and then on Thursday we gave a blessing to a really sick lady and she was up and running around the next day! Blessings are so weird. I don’t even know how to describe blessings, because I can’t even remember what I say in them. But this was my first blessing in Spanish that I gave myself. So it was really cool.
Then Friday Elder Akana, who is a new missionary in my district, had his first Dominican girl ask him to marry him. She was 40. lol. And then I got kind of sick Friday and I’ve been kind of sick all weekend but this weekend was just sweet. I am fully in love with general conference. It was awesome. We slept over at the Zone Leaders’ house and just partied all night (the way missionaries can), lol, which was basically playing Phase 10. lol. But naw, I committed 8 people to baptism. And we are having one this weekend. So that’s exciting. General conference just ruined my baptisms though because investigators have to go to church twice in a row before they can be baptized. And if conference wouldn’t of been in Boni, which is a 40 min bus ride from Nizao, my investigators would have gone and I would have had 2 baptisms this weekend and 5 the next. Oh well. Conference still rocked, but hey, that was my week.
Love You
Elder Woestman
My week was pretty sweet. Monday I had a really cool experience. I bought a cake for this investigator for his birthday. We called up his friend to get us in the house when he wasn´t there and we waited for him with candles lit and everything. It was really exciting right…… but then he walks in and he sees the cake and does nothing. He was like amazed and the whole environment got really awkward. So I start cutting the cake, but he is still not talking. Then he starts talking to me and he was holding back tears. He started telling me how nobody had ever bought him a cake before on his birthday and it was way moving. I almost cried too and the whole thing got even more awkward -but it was way cool. It’s amazing how much a cake can do for someone.
Tuesday I had an intercombio with the Zone Leaders and it was good. I was with my “grandpa in the mission” Elder Johnson. We worked it hard and it felt good. My Dominican companion is kind of lazy, and I’m not being very patient with it. lol. So it was nice to work hard and also not to be in charge for a change. lol.
Then Wednesday was the district meeting. It was good and then on Thursday we gave a blessing to a really sick lady and she was up and running around the next day! Blessings are so weird. I don’t even know how to describe blessings, because I can’t even remember what I say in them. But this was my first blessing in Spanish that I gave myself. So it was really cool.
Then Friday Elder Akana, who is a new missionary in my district, had his first Dominican girl ask him to marry him. She was 40. lol. And then I got kind of sick Friday and I’ve been kind of sick all weekend but this weekend was just sweet. I am fully in love with general conference. It was awesome. We slept over at the Zone Leaders’ house and just partied all night (the way missionaries can), lol, which was basically playing Phase 10. lol. But naw, I committed 8 people to baptism. And we are having one this weekend. So that’s exciting. General conference just ruined my baptisms though because investigators have to go to church twice in a row before they can be baptized. And if conference wouldn’t of been in Boni, which is a 40 min bus ride from Nizao, my investigators would have gone and I would have had 2 baptisms this weekend and 5 the next. Oh well. Conference still rocked, but hey, that was my week.
Love You
Elder Woestman
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